Our View: Loebsack has earned a fourth term in Congress

9:24 PM,
Oct. 25, 2012

Rep. Dave Loebsack gives a short speech Oct. 24 in Davenport.

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
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It's become de rigueur when writing endorsements for Iowa's Second Congressional District to invoke the legacy of the district's former Republican Congressman, Jim Leach.

As an editorial board - after endorsing Leach against Democrat Dave Loebsack in 2006 - we invoked Leach's legacy prominently in our 2008 and 2010 endorsements of Loebsack's campaign for a second and third term in Congress. And the Des Moines Register Editorial Board mentioned Leach in the first sentence of its recent endorsement of Loebsack for a fourth term.